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e tops of towers orelevated places, or on platforms, and always the rallying point inbattle, they obtained the name of standards from being stationary.Ducange derives the name from standarum or stantarum, stan-dardum, standate, used in corrupt Latin to signify the principalflag in an army. Menage… … Egyptian Standards, from Wilkinson. work on the ancient Egyptians, speaking of their armies says (i, 294), Each battalion and indeed each company had its particular standard which representeda sacred subject, a kings name, asacred boat, an animal or some em-blematical device. Among theEgyptian…
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